International Fast Food

This is a map from worldmapper.org. I looked at a lot of the different maps and they were all so interesting. This one that I chose to write about it on International Fast Food. The map is of one major fast food outlet. I had a feeling that the United States would be pretty big on this map. Fast food restaurants are a way of life in the United States. So many days I just go and run to Subway or run to Runza to get away from Janzow food. I don't think twice about it. But then I look at places like Africa and they really have no fast food. It's intersting to see how what we eat and how we eat influences or is influenced by our culture. The United States is such a fast paced culture. We don't have time anymore to sit down and have a nice dinner every night. A reason for this is because women are working so much more, they aren't able to just stay home and cook something fancy every day. So it is a lot easier to order something fast and bring it home. The website says that by 2004 there were 30,496 of these restaurants worldwide. And of that number, 45% of them were in the United States. That's an outrageous percentage! The next highest ranking were in Japan, Canada, Germany, Andorra, New Zealand, Austria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, and Kyrgystan. These places too are more developed countries. It says that the world average for these outlets are 5 per million people. In the U.S.A. there are 47 per million people. As we can see, Africa is very tiny on this map. The number of outlets in Africa is 150. Most of these are in South Africa where you can see it is a little bit bigger. At the bottom of the map, they have a quote from McDonalds. It reads, "One World. One Taste." That is saying that there is only one world, but McDonalds and other fast food restaurants have become so big internationally that you can find these fast food restaurants all over the place.